A transportation group is accusing the state Education Department of not keeping its training programs for school-bus drivers up to date.
The state annually sets aside $400,000 for school-bus-driver safety training through the Education Department and a database of accidents. In 2007-08, more than $159,000 of the total was not spent, said Peter Mannella, executive director [...]

Women’s groups have come out in support of the Health Ministry for promoting the use of condoms to combat HIV, but say practising safe sex is the responsibility of both men and women.
Sisters in Islam programme manager Norhayati Kaprawi said it was her group’s hope that both men and women are encouraged to practise safe [...]

The first issue to settle in discussing aboriginal affairs is who defines the issues and who is supposed to solve them.
Pierre Trudeau was quoted in Morris Shumiatcher’s book Welfare: The Hidden Backlash, as saying “all of us feel a sense of guilt, not so much toward the Indian, as toward the fact that we haven’t [...]

If you didn’t get a Presidential Physical Fitness Award in school, the government is giving you another chance to prove you’re in shape.
An adult fitness test is being introduced Wednesday by the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. It will incorporate several of the exercises that millions of students undertake each year as they [...]

At the school, all is good, and green. Their hands caked in dirt, giggling students plant seedlings in their new garden.
But outside Sheppard Elementary School in Roseland, temptation awaits: a dozen vendors line the sidewalks, ringing bells to signal a bounty of soda, candy, ice cream, and the increasingly popular snack, Cheetos “Flaming Hot with [...]

Workers with job-based coverage for their families saw earnings rise 3% from 2001 to 2005, while their health insurance premium contribution increased 30%, according to the study by researchers at the State Health Access Data Assistance Center at the University of Minnesota.
The average cost nationally of family coverage during the period increased nearly $2,500, to [...]

Scott Piechocinski roamed the rows of a CarMax dealership in Charlotte, N.C., on a recent afternoon, searching for something small to replace his son’s 2001 Nissan Pathfinder sport/utility vehicle.
He’s not alone: As gas prices marched higher and now top $3.50 per gallon across the nation, car buyers across the country increasingly are abandoning SUVs and [...]

Welcome to Generation Z, the forgotten generation. Generation Z encompasses children aged 17 and younger, one in five of whom will have some form of mental illness.
One in four will be bullied, most likely over the internet. Also known as the New Silent Generation, it will be the most educated, financially well-off and technologically literate [...]

As the morning sun pours into his studio, designer Robert
Rodriguez shows off luxurious lace dresses and silk tops with
cascading flowers, a far cry from the street wear so prevalent on
the Los Angeles streets outside.
His modern showroom and atelier reflect the upscale aspirations
of this city’s apparel industry, which is yearning to raise its
profile - even though [...]

Lorgat, 47, will succeed incumbent Malcolm Speed when he steps down on July 1 following the ICCs annual conference in London.
%26quot;It would be a very good personal goal to try and make sure that we get the test-playing nations beyond 10,%26quot; he told a news conference in Cape Town.
%26quot;You need to be in the detail [...]